Another prize draw...

Not mine, this time!

My good friend, amazing painter and partner in Dux Britanniarum crime, Andy Hawes, has just hit 100,000 pageviews on his excellent and inspiring blog, and as a result is celebrating in the by-now-traditional manner with a prize draw.

The prize:

One 28mm Gripping Beast Arthur miniature, hand-painted by Andy. Is that awesome or what?

If you want to be in with a chance of winning this fantastic figure, get over to his blog and enter - instructions are on the page.

And the winner IS....

...drawn from an awesome 174 qualifying entries!

Karitas.

Consider this an inspiration to catch up on your blogging! Please drop me an email at fleetfootmike@gmail.com with an email address I can credit your voucher to!

Chain of Command - 50th Birthday Prize Draw deadline

Just a reminder (I have house guests, and a WAB tournament tomorrow) that the closing date for this is drawing closer. You have until this coming Sunday at 23:59 to enter, and the rules are here.

The prize, to reiterate, is a £25 voucher for the Too Fat Lardies webstore, which is enough to buy the basic Chain of Command rules bundle, which will be released on or around next Wednesday 21st August. 

Best of luck!

Mike's 50th Birthday Prize Draw

For those of you who missed the memo, I turned 50 yesterday (today as I'm typing this, but this post is scheduled to go up tomorrow).

I got several goodies (including a slightly-ahead-of-time iPad mini). but I'm feeling charitable, so I'm going to run a special one-off Mike's 50th Birthday Prize Draw. The rules are as follows:

• You get one entry if you comment on this post;
• You get one bonus entry if you pimp this post on your blog, and link to that on this post;
• Special honour bonuses - please declare if either of these apply to you when you comment (I trust you to be honourable, though I may check your blog if you have one if you win :D :D):
• You get a bonus entry if you play Bolt Action;
• You get a bonus entry if you don't currently own or play any Too Fat Lardies rules.
• You may get a bonus entry, at my discretion, for publicising this someplace particularly audacious or clever, as long as you manage not to annoy people doing it :D
• Closing date for entries is 23:59 UK time Sunday 18th August (two weeks time). Draw will be made early Monday 19th (using random.org) to allow you to get your order in at pre-order rates for the bundles;
• I would appreciate if the winner made their victory public.

The prize is a £25 gift voucher with Too Fat Lardies, which will get you the basic Chain of Command rules-only bundle plus (most of) postage, or the tablet/PDF edition and some bits bundle, or you can add to it to get one of the other bundles.

Why am I doing this?

Because I think Chain of Command is going to be one of the best WW2 platoon-level rulesets ever, because I want to spread the word as much as possible, and because I'm prepared to put my money where my mouth is.

Have at it, and the best of luck.

Advance vacation notice

Well, at least it's cooler today! The last few days in my part of the UK have been running Orlando, FL neck and neck for temperature, and not that far lower on humidity.

Which leads me neatly into a note that I'm on vacation from this coming Thursday for a fortnight (that's two weeks to you folks from across the pond) with Anne and James (and her sister and kids) to the aforementioned sunny Orlando. We will doubtless be crossing the Mouse's palm with silver, visiting Kennedy, catching a ball game and heaven knows what else. I am hoping to convince Anne that 'doing nothing' is as valid a use of a holiday as walking round Universal in 90 degree heat, but I guess we'll see when we get there!

Two things, as a result:

- I probably won't be keeping up the daily post schedule. You will get some posts, but, heck, I'm on holiday - there certainly won't be any battle reports!

- I have a large pile of parcels going in the USPS office in Orlando as soon as I get there - relax, US based prize draw winners, these are your prizes (and with NO love to the Royal Mail for their international parcel rates, which are beyond a joke). Non-US folks, I will try and make sure I get yours in the post before I go. Please accept my sincere apologies this has taken quite so long.

100k prize draw day 5 - the last winner

The Result

The lucky winner of a set of Too Fat Lardies rules up to the value of £25... (and may I say? If you didn't win, go check out http://www.toofatlardies.co.uk/ and try a copy of IABSM or Sharp Practice or Dux Britanniarum anyway!)

...is rogerbw!!!!

Roger, please drop me an email to fleetfootmike@gmail.com and let me know which ruleset you'll be after.

100k Prize Draw day 4 - the winners

The Results!

First out of the hat....

...David Larkins, who wins the Brettonians, as per his choice...

And second...

...AHunt, who, since he didn't express a preference, gets, by a process of elimination, Commissar Yarrick and the metal 'Stealers.

Congrats, guys! Snailmail addresses to fleetfootmike@gmail.com, please :D

100k Prize draw day 3 - the winners

Managed to clear most of the floor in the workshop off onto either shelving or the other room (which is looking even more of a tip, but half of the stuff in isn't ours. we just have a Big Storage Room...)

Got the terrain tiles and the big hill painted - this is cheap 'Warm Tan' emulsion from our local discount shop.

But, more important.

The Results!

Winning a box of Conquest Games Normans and a copy of "When Christ And His Saints Slept"...

Sean!

Please drop me an email at fleetfootmike@gmail.com with contact details and tell me if you want the infantry or cavalry box.

Note: tomorrow's draw may be slightly late, as I'll be on a train at 8am. Friday's may be slightly late depending on how hungover I am :D

100K Prize Draw day 2 - the winners

Didn't get as much done as I'd like on the various terrain projects yesterday - going to be constrained by three lots of drying times, I suspect.

Did, though, get to hit B&Q and stock up on supplies.

But, more important:

The Results

Just one item for day 2's draw, the large stack of GW LotR sprues. And the winner is....

drumroll

Chris Stoesen!!

Usual rules - email to fleetfootmike@gmail.com, please, with contact details!

100K Prize Draw day 1 - the winners

Back from a trip to Bomber County (that's Lincolnshire) for the weekend. Didn't do East Kirkby, but did get buzzed by their Dakota at about 1000 feet while on the roof of Tattershall Castle, which was pretty awesome. The window displays also reminded me of stuff I need to do in the next heraldry post!

Got back and managed to do a bit more work on scenery - specifically, started on some terrain tiles. Ran out of foam glue, so that's it for now :D

And now (drumroll):

The Results:

The Airfix 54mms go to M R Lee.
The 20mms go to Monty

Congratulations to you both - if you could wing an email to fleetfootmike@gmail.com with your address, I'll add your prizes to the end-of-the-week posting pile!

100K Prize Draw day 5

The last one! I'm away for the weekend (hoping to squeeze in a visit to East Kirkby), so I won't be starting the draws until Monday, so you have until 0800 BST (UK local time) on Monday to enter draw 1, and ditto on Tuesday through Friday for draws 2 - 5. Meanwhile, my robot will keep you amused with posts over the weekend!

But first, here's the fifth and final prize, and boy howdy, but I think this one's a doozy!

The Rules:

Just to reiterate:

• One (1) entry if you are a registered follower and comment on the post. If there are multiple lots, please say which you're interested in.
• One (1) bonus entry if you plug this day's draw on your blog and comment with a link to say you've done so.

And for this draw ONLY:

• One (1) bonus entry if you tell me you do not own any set of Too Fat Lardies rules. (Obviously, I'll be relying on your integrity for this one!)

The Prize:

The final prize is one set of printed or PDF rules from Too Fat Lardies, of your choice, up to the value of £25. To be clear: one set of rules (plus support materials such as cards if they come in a bundle) in either printed or PDF (or both if there's a suitably priced bundle) for no more than £25. Rules, not supplements - the aim here is to get you to try out a set of rules you've not tried before. I am willing to defer sending you your prize until Chain of Command is out, if that's the set you want (but I accept no responsibility for production delays, unless it's me who makes Rich go back and fix a pile of typos!)

N.B. Support for the Lardies' rules is, as always, available on the TFL Yahoo! group, where you'll find me and any number of folks who can answer your questions. In return for winning, I'd really like it if you blogged your experiences with the rules, too.

All you Richard Sharpe fans, Flames of War/Battlegroup: Kursk/Blitzkrieg Commander and SAGA players, take note: that's enough to get you I Ain't Been Shot Mum, Sharp Practice, or the hard copy bundle of Dux Britanniarum, among others too numerous to mention. If you want to know which rules fit a period you like, just ask!


The Draw

0800 BST Friday 7th June

100K Prize draw part 4

The Prize:

Reverting to 'what on earth are these doing in the bits box????' mode :D

I'll split these if someone only wants one of the two.

• A collection of what I believe are early pre-slotta Citadels - they look like they'd mostly pass for Brettonians. I can scare you up some of the plastic shields to go with.
• A 40K Commissar Yarrick figure. AND (as a bonus extra 'look what I found while tidying') three metal Genestealers!

The Rules:

Just in case you've forgotten:

• One (1) entry if you are a registered follower and comment on the post. If there are multiple lots, please say which you're interested in (both is fine!)
  , and I'll redraw for the other if the winner only wants one.
• One (1) bonus entry if you plug this day's draw on your blog and comment with a link to say you've done so.

The Draw

0800 BST Thursday 6th June

100K Prize Draw day 3

The Prize:

A job lot of two items this time, for the historical gamers amongst you! (Yes, this draw IS for BOTH items together.)

• One box of Conquest Games plastic 28mm Normans - your choice of foot or mounted, tell me which if you win - these will be brand new (as I'm a big fan of CG's range, I believe in supporting them!)
• One (used) copy of Sharon Penman's historical novel "When Christ And His Saints Slept" for inspiration for something to do with those figures. Cracking retelling of the history of the Anarchy (Stephen/Matilda civil war), well worth a read.

The Rules:

You should know where to find them by now (hint: go back two posts!)

The Draw

0800 BST Wednesday 5th June

The Results!

Winning a box of Conquest Games Normans and a copy of "When Christ And His Saints Slept"...

Sean!

100K Prize Draw day 2

The Prize:

12 sprues of GW Lord Of The Rings figures. These actually come from the magazine part-work that was released most of a decade ago to promote the initial release of the rules around the movies. I've basically nabbed the Rohirrim to stand in for later Saxons, but the rest are (barring a couple of sprues that have been clipped in half) intact. We have:

• 2 Men of Minas Tirith sprues
• 2 Goblin sprues
• 6 assorted Orc/Uruk sprues, including two with siege ladders
• 1 sprue of Orc Warg riders
• 1 sprue of Wargs

The Rules

See yesterday's post.

The Draw

0800 BST Tuesday 4th June


The Results

The winner is....

Chris Stoesen

100K Prize Draw day 1

[Before we start - the 2013 Lardies Summer Special is out, and man is it awesome! It would still be awesome without my article, of course.]

So, here we go.

The Rules

• One (1) entry if you are a registered follower and comment on the post. If there are multiple lots, please say which you're interested in.
• One (1) bonus entry if you plug this day's draw on your blog and comment with a link to say you've done so.

The Draw

0800 BST Monday 3rd June

The Prize

It's going to be a real mix - some vintage Citadels, some LoTR, heaven knows what else...

For today? From the 'dear Lord, I don't recall having these' pile.

Lot 1: Three boxes of classic era Airfix 20mm figures
German Infantry, ACW Artillery, Guards Band

Lot 2: Two of the 54mm Collectors series figures
British Hussar, Scots Grey

The Results:

The Airfix 54mms go to M R Lee.
The 20mms go to Monty